| | I am secretly running away from work as I wait for my dimsum lunch, and I decided yesterday's trip deserved a post. Hur.
So we (my mum and I) made a day trip to Macau yesterday, because I've never been there. I had to wake up at 7.30, 5 hours after I finished dramafeste shiz, and take a bus to the ferry terminal. Thank goodness we've a bus terminal just downstairs. Anyway we managed to catch the 9.30 ferry after mum's panic attacks and by 10.30 we arrived at Macau.
With the help of our hk identity cards, we sailed through the electronic barriers at the HK side without any delay. :D
Upon reaching Macau we immediately joined this one-day tour, which turned out more of just transport than anything educational, but it was worth the price 'cause it included the ticket up Macau Tower, which wouldn't be cheap going there alone. The first stop was some golden Lotus statue, where the security guard relentlessly blew his whistle at anyone stepping on his grass.
The next stop was some Filipino gift shop.
That was a toilet break. But after that we walked to the Ruins of St Paul, which i was quite looking forward to. It was smaller than I expected, as usual, but interesting nonetheless. here it is.
One point to note about that shirt (Aliff, Shawn and Zhi Yuan, are you very happy now?) was that there was this woman with her caucasian boyfriend who stopped in front of me to read it. And then she went, "That's the nicest shirt I've seen." and she continued reading it off for her boyfriend, who was towering over her. But anyway, I had this mango drink at the base of these steps, which somehow made me want to puke after finishing it (so don't buy it if you go there) and I didn't have any appetite for the nice street food. D:
There wasn't anything too eventful, 'cept that the heat was making everyone really grumpy. I checked the weather forecast on weather.com the previous night, and was expecting thunderstorms. -.-
Next few stops weren't much -- Ah Ma temple, where there were nice paintings/murals outside done by secondary school students to educate the public about what's gonna cause them fines. I tried sneezing-
 ...But it didn't really work out. Spread the flu yo.
On a side note Tower 5 and 6 of our apartment have swine flu cases already. I'm in Tower 2. Stupid flu bug had better not climb up 58 floors.
Back to Macau, I enjoyed the trip to Macau Tower, which I had seen in the Amazing Race Asia, where they had a Fast Forward to climb to the mast, and a roadblock to do the bungee jump. The bungee jump was very tempting but no one else was doing it and it wouldn't be good for my mum to panic if she saw me jumping off 338 metres. WASTED chance anyway. D:
 There were Chinese tourists who were really scared walking on these glass panels, it was quite funny. My mum was freaking out too when I tried pulling her onto these panels bahahaha. I saw people sitting down on 'em, so I tried to too.
 Just that now the bottom is blocked. Bleh.
 The rest of the trip wasn't much. I think it's insane how many casinos Macau has. And I really don't get the whole point of it. You see a casino and hotel at every corner and every turn you make. Apart from that, I really liked the old buildings and Portuguese influence, like streetsigns too. Having no English at all for once, unlike Hong Kong.
Oh oh oh but the tour group was a pretty interesting bunch. I felt like I could understand everyone bahaha 'cause there was an Indonesian family and my mum started rattling on with her Indonesian at one point, there were 2 elderly French couples, from whom I caught a few words here and there, there was another elderly couple from Shanghai, and so that was why the entire tour was in English and Mandarin.
We were dropped off at The Venetian, some casino/hotel, at the end. It was crazily grand. We ate our overpriced Japanese meal, and headed to the shops along the fake canal. The fake sky.
But the atmosphere was really there! Shops along the canal, singing gondoliers.. And then the casino. You've to be 18 to go in, but I caught a glimpse as I got on the escalator.
Haha not my cup of tea.
We took the free shuttle back to the Ferry Terminal, then walked to Fisherman's Wharf, which was a really odd place. It was very tourist-y, and strangely deserted. There was nothing much there, but a fake volcano, Tibetan houses and other nice old buildings/shops that had no business. Poor things.
Back at the ferry terminal, there was something quite funny that happened. I spotted these 2 siblings, a guy and a girl, pointing and staring at my shirt, but I didn't say anything. As I was talking to my mum, I saw them strangely walking over and then STOPPING to take a photo further up ahead of me. I was carrying my bag in front of my shirt at the time, and I think they were waiting for me to put down my bag, 'cause the guy waited pretty long.
But too bad I just walked away 'cause we wanted to catch the earliest ferry we could back to Hong Kong.
Bahahaha.
OKAY SORRY PARENTS JUST CALLED.
DIMSUM TIME.
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